Life Poetry Quotes - Page 24

Quote from “The Ladder Of St. Augustine”

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quote from “Slabs Of The Sunburnt West (1922)”

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Carl Sandburg

Quote from “Dance” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/79221

Open your heart to happiness,
let every pore absorb light.
Swim in the joy of the here and now,
and cast off the darkness of night.

Paul Hayward

Quote from “Silence”

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

Robert W. Service

Quote from “Hands” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/1373

I can feel that time
is slipping by me,
that it will be gone
if I just stand still.

- Jherine N. Saine

Quote from “Do What You Will (1929)”

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Aldous Huxley